Google's My Bitch

Recently on CodeProject I suggested that each of the site's programming forums should have a large button at the top that said Google's My Bitch. It's really surprising that IT people should have to be reminded of google, but the programming forums on CodeProject (and other programming sites) are being flooded with questions that could be answered very quickly with a simple google search.

Google itself might have contributed to this state of affairs. For most of last year, Google Groups search was broken, returning results that were completely irrelevant, or from a different newsgroup than the one that was actually specified. I've tried several Google Groups searches in the past week, and so far it seems to be working correctly. I haven't seen anything about when (or how) it was fixed, but hopefully people will come back to using it and other online searches, instead of asking for real-time answers.